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...individual health-care purchases. Second, most people don't even buy their own insurance. They get it--heavily subsidized--from their employers or the government. This isolates them even further from the economic consequences of their health-care decisions. Third, most health-care purchasing decisions (to consult a specialist, to take a drug, to have an operation) are made by the doctor--who isn't paying in any event--not by the consumer-patient. Fourth, buying health care is not like buying a cantaloupe: it is hard for any lay person to know which purchases make sense and at what...
...coverage, she says, is a "multidisciplinary challenge." A Simpson trial reporter needs to be "a lawyer, a sleuth, a Hollywood entertainment specialist, an expert in race relations, a sociologist and a political strategist." That's why we're glad to rely on a couple of correspondents with a multitude of gifts...
...Arizona Senator John McCain and his aide Mark Buse, the antipork specialist who ferrets out "ridiculous spending projects," a 21-gun salute for blocking pork-barrel appropriations. ROBERT G. ROWE Denver...
Surrey founded the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School, a leading world center for the study and research of international tax systems. Halperin joins the faculty as a specialist in tax legislation, and pension and retirement benefits...
...Harvey Cox, a prominent theologian, credits Pagels with "a sixth sense'' for finding unrecognized patterns in familiar material. Her critics ask whether she blames Christian sources too much for an all too human tendency to demonize. "Mao did it without any reference to Christianity," observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, a specialist on Satan at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Others say Pagels finds the devil in passages where he is never explicitly mentioned or overplays marginal texts. Pagels is merely "scavenging at the edges of tradition,'' says Father Richard Neuhaus, editor of the religious monthly First Things...